blustering
Example Sentences
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Students treat institutional rituals as a farce and openly mock their principal - calling him Yamdoot after the Hindu god of death - a blustering figure who addresses them as "My dear donkey".
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
That’s quite the change from the blustering, kill-’em-all Viking who led the last installment of Ubisoft’s venerable franchise.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2023
He arrives in Venice not as a blustering leader but more as man of the people, and vulnerable.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023
“Echoes call you from your past,” went one gorgeously blustering song.
From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023
With that, he turned to Perrington and began speaking too quietly for anyone else to hear in the blustering wind.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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